Encyclia concolor (La Llave & Lex.) Schltr. 1918

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Common Name The Single Colored Encyclia

Flower Size

Found in Jslisco, Michoacan, Guerrerro, Mexico, Moreles, Oaxaca and Puebla states of Mexico as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte in oak and oak-pine forests at elevations of 1500 to 2100 meters with clustered, ovoid or subglobose, slightly compressed pseufdobulbs carrying 1 or 2 apical, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the winter through early summer on an apical, racemose to ocassionally branched, 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, few to many [30] flowered inflorescence arising through a narrow spathe.

Synonyms Encyclia amabilis (L. Linden & Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1918; Encyclia pruinosa (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Schltr. 1918; Epidendrum amabile L. Linden & Rchb. f. 1855; *Epidendrum concolor La Llave & Lex. 1825; Epidendrum pruinosum A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Epidendrum punctulatum Rchb. f. 1885

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ;

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